Publication: Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson Produced by Vector-Boson Fusion and Decaying to Bottom Quarks in S√=8 S = 8 TeV Pp Collisions With the ATLAS Detector
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ATLAS Collaboration. 2016. Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson Produced by Vector-Boson Fusion and Decaying to Bottom Quarks in S√=8 S = 8 TeV Pp Collisions With the ATLAS Detector. Journal of High Energy Physics 11: 1-37.
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A search with the ATLAS detector is presented for the Standard Model Higgs boson produced by vector-boson fusion and decaying to a pair of bottom quarks, using 20.2 fb−1 of LHC proton-proton collision data at √s = 8 TeV. The signal is searched for as a resonance in the invariant mass distribution of a pair of jets containing b-hadrons in vector-boson-fusion candidate events. The yield is measured to be −0.8 ± 2.3 times the Standard Model cross-section for a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV. The upper limit on the cross-section times the branching ratio is found to be 4.4 times the Standard Model cross- section at the 95% confidence level, consistent with the expected limit value of 5.4 (5.7) in the background-only (Standard Model production) hypothesis.
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Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments), Higgs physics, proton-proton scattering
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